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Saying that someone has rosy cheeks suggests that they are in good health.

Saying that someone is "seeing through rose-colored glasses" means that they are an optimist, only seeing the good and neglecting to notice the bad. (The opposite type of person, a pessimist, is symbolised by the color grey).

The color rose is well loved in Iran because the cultivation of the rose flower is thought to have began in Iran.

Rose is the national color of Georgia (specifically, that tone of rose called Dogwood Rose or Georgian Rose [shown on the color chart below]) because the people of Georgia believe the cultivation of roses began there.